---
kind: "section"
citation: "40 U.S.C. § 15751"
title: "40"
title_heading: "Public Buildings, Property, and Works"
number: "15751"
heading: "Authorization of appropriations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/40/15751"
units:
  - "Subtitle V — Regional Economic and Infrastructure Development"
  - "Chapter 157 — Administrative Provisions"
  - "Subchapter III — Authorization of Appropriations"
---

# §15751. Authorization of appropriations

- (a) **In General.—** There is authorized to be appropriated to each [Commission](/usc/40/15101.md?p=1) to carry out this subtitle $40,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2025 through 2029.
- (b) **Administrative Expenses.—**
  - (1) **In general.—** Except as provided in [paragraph (2)](#b-2), not more than 10 percent of the funds made available to a [Commission](/usc/40/15101.md?p=1) in a fiscal year under this section may be used for administrative expenses.
  - (2) **Limited funding.—** In a case in which less than $10,000,000 is made available to a [Commission](/usc/40/15101.md?p=1) for a fiscal year under this section, [paragraph (1)](#b-1) shall not apply.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 110–234, title XIV, § 14217(a)(2), May 22, 2008, 122 Stat. 1482, and Pub. L. 110–246, § 4(a), title XIV, § 14217(a)(2), June 18, 2008, 122 Stat. 1664, 2244; amended Pub. L. 113–79, title VI, § 6207, Feb. 7, 2014, 128 Stat. 861; Pub. L. 115–334, title VI, § 6304(e), Dec. 20, 2018, 132 Stat. 4752; Pub. L. 118–272, div. B, title II, § 2241, Jan. 4, 2025, 138 Stat. 3202.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Pub. L. 110–234 and Pub. L. 110–246 enacted identical sections. Pub. L. 110–234 was repealed by section 4(a) of Pub. L. 110–246.

### Amendments

2025—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 118–272 added subsec. (a) and struck out former subsec. (a). Prior to amendment, text read as follows: “There is authorized to be appropriated to each Commission to carry out this subtitle $33,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2019 through 2023.”

2018—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 115–334 substituted “$33,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2019 through 2023” for “$30,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2008 through 2018”.

2014—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 113–79, § 6207(1), substituted “2018” for “2012”.

Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 113–79, § 6207(2), designated existing provisions as par. (1) and inserted heading, substituted “Except as provided in paragraph (2), not more than” for “Not more than”, and added par. (2).

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective on the first day of the first fiscal year beginning after June 18, 2008, see section 14217(d) of Pub. L. 110–246, set out as a note under section 15101 of this title.